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Pine-apple Marmalade

A preserve made by boiling grated pineapple with sugar until clear.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,841 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Pine-apple Marmalade

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Weigh the grated pineapple and measure an equal amount of sugar.

  2. Combine the sugar and pineapple in a bowl and let them sit for 2 to 3 hours until the sugar dissolves.

Cook

  1. Transfer the mixture to a preserving kettle and boil for about 20 minutes, or until it looks clear.

Store

  1. Store the marmalade in a sealed jar.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Pineapple
Provides the fruit base, juice and pulp that form the marmalade's body and flavor.
Granulated sugar
Draws water out of the fruit and, when boiled, thickens the mixture while adding sweetness.

The step that matters

Boiling until clear. Boiling concentrates the sugar and pineapple until the mixture thickens and sets. Stopping too early leaves it runny and prone to spoiling, while boiling too long can darken it and give a caramelized, bitter flavor.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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